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Trump’s recent remarks may have sparked a debate on the possibility of the one-state solution, but one thing is for sure: Israeli Jews are not in a position to decide the future of the occupied territories.
nce again, the future of Palestine is being decided behind the back of the Palestinians. Once again, they have been made invisible.
You could almost hear the collective gasp in the echo-chamber of Washington-based Middle East policy circles when President Donald Trump made comments backing away from the ‘two-state solution,’ which has been a centerpiece of peace policy for the last 15 years.
‘I’m looking at two-state and one-state, and I like the one that both parties like.’ With these words at a joint press conference with Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump may have finally dispelled the already receding mirage of any just solution.
The poet Dylan Thomas urged his father – and all those approaching death – ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ but ‘rage, rage against the dying of the light.’ The death of the two-state solution has been foretold for nearly 20 years, after it became clear that Israel had signed on to the Oslo peace process in 1993 with no intention of allowing a sovereign Palestinian state.
Condition Critical presents key blog posts and analytical essays that explore everyday life in Israel, East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza up close. All these stories depict the critical conditions of the decades-old wounds of colonization and occupation in which the Palestinian people live.
Our panelists discuss many questions about the foreign policy positions president-elect Donald Trump will make with regard to the Middle East and Palestine, while examining the widespread regional and global effects these shifts will bring.
Two artists, Moroccan and Algerian, create drawings that “stigmatize the madness of modern man, adding an emotional dimension to a decidedly dark and caustic world.”
From the windows of the grey, cube-shaped building that houses the US embassy in Tel Aviv, staff enjoy an undisturbed view out over the Mediterranean and a beach adorned in the summer with sunbeds and parasols.Most days the only evidence of activity is outside on the pavement: A queue of Israelis snake out of a side door, clutching their documents and watched over by Israeli soldiers as they wait expectantly for a US travel visa.
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